“Once you’ve seen a pattern, you can’t un-see it,” says Brené Brown in her book, The Gifts of Imperfection. One pattern I see time and again is how loading people up with multiple simultaneous projects can dramatically reduce the quality of their work. Most managers and companies don’t understand this, or don’t want to understand [...]
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Tech without growth? It’s not only possible, it’s what we should do
Mother Jones recently had an immensely interesting piece about the impossibility of assuming that the earth can support endless economic growth. To date, economists at both ends of the political spectrum have implicitly assumed that ‘growth is good’ and inevitable. Economic growth has been viewed as the natural state, much in the same way that [...]
Richard Sennett in Utne Reader
Richard Sennett is a sociologist at New York University and the London School of Economics. In the January/February 2010 issue of Utne Reader, an interview with him is reprinted from American Craft. I found these passages particularly resonant: The most radical thing that could happen in the modern workplace is for workers to say, “Let [...]
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Carsten Knoch
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